We are building extraordinarily intelligent machines to solve a problem whose governing assumptions remain remarkably primitive.
We are building a world that needs to know more and more about us, just as being unknown becomes increasingly valuable.
How lawfare converts institutional status and financial power into pressure that silences criticism and makes public disagreement prohibitively expensive.
The question is whether civilisation can preserve its capacity to continue without making recurrent destruction the principal instrument of its renewal.
The cast changes. The relations keep coming back. Popular culture makes visible how complex adaptive systems persist through transformation.
A force built to exploit asymmetry now operates inside legal and informational systems capable of generating asymmetric effects upon it.
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Or
Ask a logician an “or” question and you may get the most annoying correct answer in existence: yes.
Tech CEOs mistake being rewarded by the machinery for understanding it. The resulting confusion is being offered as humanity’s only available future.
We built machines to finish our sentences. Now they are helping us finish the world.
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Holism and Climate Change
Climate change is not occurring inside a stable planetary system. It is altering the persistent structure of relations among climatic states, variables and phases, changing the conditions under which subsequent states become possible and probable.
Climate change is not a problem inside a stable planetary system. This text indicates how it is reorganising the relations through which planetary stability itself is reproduced.
Fascism does not begin with a dictator. It takes shape through recurrent patterns of threat, identity and authority, until a leader can occupy the position those patterns have made available.
